Pseudocrates soritica

Pseudocrates soritica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Pseudocrates
Species: P. soritica
Binomial name
Pseudocrates soritica
Meyrick, 1918

Pseudocrates soritica is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1918. It is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous, sprinkled dark fuscous, the margins irregularly irrorated blackish-fuscous, especially along the costa. There is a blackish mark beneath the costa near the base and an oblique blackish mark from the dorsum at one-fourth, as well as an oblique transverse blackish-fuscous blotch representing the combined plical and first discal stigmata, a subtriangular spot representing the second discal. The hindwings are pale grey.[2]

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